I have been on HRT for a little over two months. I am taking sprio and sublingual estradiol.
These treatments have pretty much cured my depression, but otherwise I feel pretty much the same. I kind of expected estrogen to feel actively different most of the time, but so far that doesn’t seem to be the case.
However, today I felt my nerves for the first time on HRT, and it felt very different. I get stage fright on occasion. This time wasn’t worse or anything, but it felt so very different. Like the nerves were in my body instead of my head.
Has anyone else had similar experiences with performance anxiety before and after HRT? I’d also love to know if are other experiences that feel distinctly different that I can look forward to.
Thx in advance. Love you all <3
You have to do what you have to do to be safe. I understand. Take care of yourself. <3
Despite your real life circumstances, at least while you’re here, the title of trans woman is yours if you choose to accept it.
I remember questioning my gender before I was a young adult. As a kid, I once wanted to crossdress for a photoshoot and wanted to join Girl Scouts (maybe because I was the butt of jokes among the boys). Later I was contemplating about my Reddit (now Lemmy) username by trying to list my most static and key traits. I decided gender was neither, and that was over 5 years ago.
As for Czech culture, it’s weird how our typical “live and let live” mentality gets thrown out the window at the idea of a person with a functioning penis being legally a woman or enby. We might get neopronouns someday but the language would need to undergo major changes and the vast majority disagrees with any given proposal. There are even no gender-neutral names other than exotic ones nobody knows how to pronounce or conjugate, or domestic forms (Péťa = Petr/Petra, Vlasta = Vlastislav/Vlastimil/Vlastimila, Míša = Michal/Michael/Michaela) that are only possible as legal names under rare conditions. Even Czech surnames give off the gender with few exceptions. There isn’t even a Czech word for gender since “pohlaví” means (biological) sex, and most people roll their eyes when they hear about “this new concept known by the English word ‘gender’”.